On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 14:29 +0100, Jos Vos wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 08:20:38AM -0500, Jay Turner wrote: > > > The default x86 kernel (kernel-2.6.18-<whatever>) doesn't have PAE > > enabled. I suspect this is why you're not seeing all 16G. Try > > installing the kernel-PAE package and see if that makes your machine > > happy. Granted, I would have expected the stock kernel to show 4G, but > > maybe there's some weird memory hole. > > Yes, I tried already, and with PAE I see 16 GB. > > Without PAE, I see 2 GB on that 16 GB system, but 4 GB on another > 4 GB system. Weird...
I would suspect a memory hole. I'm not saying it's correct to not
recognize the rest of the RAM (up to 4G) but I suspect there's a hole
getting in the way.
>
> But: I *never* get a kernel dump, although I think I have everything
> in place (kdump.conf filled correctly, kdump service enabled, correct
> GRUB line).
What happens if you manually crash the machine using the
<ctrl><alt><sysrq>c finger-bender? Do you see the kdump kernel
immediately exec?
- jkt
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